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On This Day In History for Sept 24, 2025



This is the 267th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 98 days remaining in 2025.




* It was on this date in 1852, that the first powered, passenger-carrying airship, the Giffard dirigible, traveled 17 miles (27 km) from Paris to Trappes.



* September 24, 1906, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation’s first National Monument.



* Jimmy Doolittle performed the first flight without a window, proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible on this date in 1929.



* That same date in 1935, Earl and Weldon Bascom produced the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights.



* 77 years ago today, the Honda Motor Company was founded.



* It was 65 years ago today that USS Enterprise, the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was launched.



* Also on September 24, 2014, The Mars Orbiter Mission made India the first Asian nation to reach Mars orbit, and the first nation in the world to do so in its first attempt.



* It was on this date in 2023, that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx capsule containing samples from the asteroid 101955 Bennu successfully landed back on Earth.




Happy birthday goes out on this date to:




* Dutch mathematician and politician, Johan de Witt, born on this date in 1625.



* Georges Claude, French chemist and engineer, invented Neon lighting was born on that same date in 1870.



* American super-centenarian, oldest verified American person ever, Sarah Knauss, born on this date in 1880.



* Franklin Clarence Mars, American businessman, founded Mars, Incorporated was born on that same date in 1883.



* Born September 24, 1896, American novelist and short story writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.



* Indian-born American theoretical chemist who developed the Dewar-Chatt-Duncanson model, Michael J. S. Dewar was born 107 years ago today.




And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for Sept 24, 2025




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